Nintendo Debuts New Battle Theme From Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed

Personally I'm getting big Xenoblade vibes from this one (and I'm in love with the piano section)

@DrGonzo "Sounds a little like persona" is also the first thing I thought upon first listening to this, I think its the choice to use certain instruments that does it. Not a bad thing at all, its just a slight coincidence that people can hear general persona-ish music cues in this track. Its not an outright bad thing to say "X is a little like Y". Its fine to mention a fair comparison in an article.

Ignoring the persona arguments this is undoubtedly going to bring, song sounds amazing as per usual from the xenoblade music team. The next week can't fly by soon enough!

@DrGonzo To be fair, this song really IS the Dark Souls of battle themes.

Right in the old feels! It sounds amazing. Can't wait to hear the rest of the soundtrack.

@DrGonzo Ah, so its a crutch to make fair and valid comparisons between two things in an article? Got it.

The articles these guys write are always enjoyable to read regardless of if they include comparisons to things not directly about the article topic. That's just a normal thing to do. If you don't like it, just ignore it. Don't have to comment negatively about the writers' work for absolutely no reason at all.

Nah this gives me more Torna The Golden Country vibes than Persona. Persona doesn't really have an emphasis on pianos and heavy metal as its music (from 5 at least) is more of a relaxed, jazz fusion that's much less energetic overall and one of the reasons why I actually didn't like the soundtrack for Persona 5 all that much. It wasn't very exciting like Xenoblade music tends to be which is generally what I prefer. Gimme heavy metal and rock riffs any day.

Content warning: risk of bopping your head off. But I personally don't hear much Persona about it - just the trademark Xenoblade goodness.

"and it's certainly got some serious Persona vibes, right?"

No...no, it doesn't. It actually doesn't sound anything like Persona.

There is a kind of a single piano riff which sounds vaguely like it could have come from Persona 4, but otherwise this is peak Xenoblade.

In fact, watching the trailer yesterday I was thinking they've gone for a Torna like vibe again. Makes sense as both are big expansions.

Nah, I think I'm actually getting XC2/Torna vibes off a lot of this track. Especially the piano section. Granted, I haven't played the Persona series, so I can't really use it as a comparison.

It's striking me as somewhere between Torna and Persona 4, maybe a bit of Gen 5 Pokemon.

Love the Jazz trend that started with Torna!

It sounds a lot better than the battle theme in the main game already. I was so done with the flute stuff after like 5 hours in, in this 100+ hours game

Persona? Nah. It's extremely reminiscent of Torna, though. They definitely seem to like getting jazzy with the battle themes in the DLC.

I’m getting Torna and Future Connected vibes from this. It’s like the perfect mashup of them

Are they seriously thinking that persona invented jazz?

Sounds like Xenoblade to me...but kinda like all of them mashed together.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
Skyrim vibes, anyone?*

*yeah, just as silly hee hee.

@Jamies Persona invented high school smh 🙄

Long haired Shulk: Aww yeah! I'm still feeling it!

Not getting “persona vibes” at all. For one there isn’t someone singing and this track has similar style to last few Xenoblade battle themes anyway

This nothing like Persona, it is very clearly based on the previous Torna battle soundtrack (and maybe a bit of future connected)

Weak to be honest.

Played Persona 1-5, including most of the alternate versions

...I'm hearing no Persona whatsoever. It's very Xenoblade.

Great battle theme, very Xenoblade. Not even slightly Persona.

Pretty boring, just like Xenoblade 3 battle theme.

It's like both of them are trying to just copy an amazing Torna battle theme

Persona fans when they find out that Jazz came long before P5 existed.

Do people not know that Xenoblade and Persona share a composer? I'm not sure if he came back for more recent games but lot of the music from X was composed by the guy who did the famous tracks from Persona, I forget his name though 😅